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In that post you just quoted it makes a point:
"A smaller, more intimate show allows you to meet with everyone you need to, while being able to focus on the ones you want to."
My problem with that is this: There won't be as many people to do business with BECAUSE it's smaller.
I have a quick question for everybody that should end the debate:
How many affiliates were there, how many actual owners were there?
If the answer is no affiliates and a half dozen owners...then it was TOO damn "small and intimate" for the majority of this industry to do biz there.
It's nice that we've heard the billing companies and "join brokers" and such had a great show.
But the rest of us who do many different things and have lots of different facets to our business like I do need a big ass show to reach more than just the folks on the outer fringe of porn.
I need to rub elbows with lots of folks who are in the game of selling porn. Not just a couple of them and then a show full of billers and accountants. That's where the shows are falling short in my opinion. And have been for quite a few years now.
Anyway, can somebody who was there give an honest answer to that question: Let me know an estimated number based on who you saw there of affiliates and paysite owners.
Did you see 3 paysite owners? 2 affiliates? Or was the place crawling with them?
I can tell you that back when there were only a couple of shows a year...the late 90's and early part of this decade, you could throw a rock in any direction and hit the owner of a big program and he would be surrounded by affiliates. I'm thinking the Sands Expo center at the turn of the decade.
I know that ain't gonna happen again...but I had the same phenomenon when I went to the Amsterdam show in 2007
Owners and affiliates everywhere. And money being made with deals struck in bars, and in my hotel room with party favors and fucking going on too! lol
So what was the number of affiliates and what was the number of owners at this show?
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